Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I never said half the things I said.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well. I like things that have a twist - like 'Atonement,' which I haven't read obviously, as I'm a bit young.
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In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?
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Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
